A Consequence Between The Rows

They have spoken words,
Swearing falsely in making a covenant.
Thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field. Hosea 10:4

Count on works to save yourself, and in between the rows of crops you see ready to harvest is another crop: judgment. If we try to obtain salvation through good works, we make a false covenant by bringing to the table a rotten carcass filled with the putrefaction of sin. Now this goes against the basically decent human being the world has told us we are by way of its laws. Sure there might be a parking ticket here, an expired registration there, a bit of a mistake in my favor in the tax worksheet back then, but you and me are not like that fellow on death row in the supermax prison, are we? Nah, God's word assures us that we are much worse if it is by our works that we claim to be saved. 

It was on a smoky day in September that fallen imperfection looked toward perfection, failed to see it in the haze of the distant fires of judgment, and declared by lack of evidence that it was good enough for salvation. What? How could anyone be so blind? And yet, refuse to believe in the saving grace of our Lord Jesus, we will fail to see the sin in the race of Adam, and we too risk being good enough in our own blinded sight. Only in the light of Jesus are we saved, and praise unto the Lord that in the smoky haze we live under now many are coming to the light of Jesus. 

Great is the name of our Lord!

Bucky